All of our practices together are undertaken as uninvited visitors of the Lekwungen and W_SÁNEC peoples, and within their sacred lands. I endeavour to offer these practices and come to these lands in a good way. I am committed to deepening my understanding of the innumerable injustices, past and ongoing, and am committed to working within right livelihood as a contribution to finding healing ways forward, together. I am committed to and work in service of healing within community, with a foundational understanding that our healing is never separate from land, peoples, animals, and all beings, and is not separate from an understanding of the spirit woven through and within all. Neither our suffering nor our healing paths are separate from one another, and yet they still remain distinct, deeply valued and respected. I am committed to the work of acknowledging and deepening my understanding through listening, and am also committed to providing pathways for others to deepen their understanding of this vital healing work we must do together. We must begin by acknowledging that many of our herbal medicine and yoga practices have been appropriated from cultures and peoples who have practiced them since time immemorial. As an uninvited visitor of some unknown and some eastern European ancestry, I know that my ancestors were refugees and yet were also unknowingly complicit in colonial violences by settling on the lands of Anishinaabe peoples, which is also where I was raised. I ask for the opportunity to bow together with deep reverence to our ancestors for their gifts, and with deepest respect for the ongoing, intersectional and disproportionate impacts of colonialism on all of our lives. I am committed to dismantling these systems, within society and within myself. May we find ways to heal, to together celebrate our diversity and to dismantle the legacies of colonialism and colonial thought. My work is in service of this healing path, in finding a way forward first by acknowledging and doing my own work in understanding how Western herbalism and Westernized yoga has been appropriated. I am committed to working to support the work of, and lift the voices of, Indigenous peoples from all lands and traditions. I am committed to continuing to challenge a status quo that profits from inequality and invisiblizes injustices. May we build resilient systems that celebrate diversity. May we build an inclusive (non-binary!) future, together. I hold the understanding that some medicinal plants and agricultural practices were also uninvited settlers on these lands and continue to have major impacts, that the Indigenous knowledges of herbal medicine and healing ways still remain unacknowledged, that there are many ongoing injustices related to access to healing practices and the valuation of different ways of knowing. In good faith, I hold these understandings (and all those I’ve yet to understand) in all of my interactions and engagements with this land, its people, plants, and animals. May our work together be in service of whole system healing, in service of true holistic healing. I am blessed to be an uninvited visitor on these lands, and blessed by the responsibility to contribute to our collective healing.